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A Gate at the Stairs Book

With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household. As her past becomes increasingly alien to her - her parents seem older when she visits; her disillusioned brother ever more fixed on joining the military - Tassie finds herself becoming a stranger to herself. As the year unfolds love leads her to new and formative experiences - but it is then that the past and the future burst forth in dramatic and shocking ways. Refracted through the eyes of this memorable narrator "A Gate at the Stairs" is a lyrical beguiling and wise novel of our times.Read More

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    A lyrical and delightfully written tale, A Gate At The Stairs is the first full-length novel from the gifted American Lorrie Moore. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010, the story of half-Jewish student Tassie Keltjin is a meandering tale, laced with beautiful prose and a genuine warm-heartedness.

  • Blackwell

    Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the...

  • 0571249469
  • 9780571249466
  • Lorrie Moore
  • 22 April 2010
  • Faber and Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336

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